Hezbollah official says his group already ''is in the heart'' of Israel-Hamas war

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The group's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, stated that they are trying to weaken Israel and make it known that they are ready to fight..

A top official with Hezbollah vowed that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and said on Saturday that his militant group based in Lebanon already is "in the heart of the battle"..

Kassem said his group, which is allied with Hamas, already was affecting the course of the conflict by heating up the Lebanon-Israel border and keeping three Israeli army divisions tied up in the north instead of preparing to fight in Gaza...

Hezbollah's Kassem spoke about foreign dignitaries who visited Lebanon over the past two weeks asking Lebanese officials to convince the group not to take part in the latest Hamas-Israel battle..

"We tell those who are contacting us, Stop the (Israeli) aggression so that its (conflict) repercussions and possibility of expansion stops,'" Kassem said, referring to the officials who recently visited Beirut, including the foreign ministers of France and Germany...

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